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Attention with Prior

PriorPriorPrior is an attention distribution that comes from a different source than previous from inputs (e.g., softmax(QKT^TT)in vanilla Transformer). Attention with prior is the fusion of two attention distributions, which can be done by computing a weighted sum of the scores corresponding to the prior and generated attention before applying softmax

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Updated 2022-05-20

Contributors are:

Adam Nik
Adam Nik
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Carleton College
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References


  • A Survey of Transformers (Lin et. al, 2021)

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